Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 3 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 4 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 5 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 6 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 7 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 8 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 9 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 10 | These he expressed in the Working Men 's Club and Institute Union , founded chiefly on his initiative on 14 June 1862 in London , becoming its first paid secretary in 1863 . |
| 11 | He had long ago accepted the feudal organization of Church and baronage as an adequate way of organizing the world : the real questions of salvation lay in a quite different area of experience , and on these he spoke with the simple and clear authority of a personal vision and prolonged thought . |
| 12 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 13 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 14 | All he knew of the early Daurog myth was the creation myth . |
| 15 | All he knew of the northern religions was that they embraced demonology and witchcraft . |
| 16 | During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs , the latter foreshadowing his immediately postwar position as head of the department for the exchange of information in Unesco , where he worked towards universal bibliographical control . |
| 17 | Between September 1915 and November 1918 he served in the 21st , 39th , and 47th divisions of the Royal Engineers in France and Belgium , and fought in the battle of Pilckem ridge in 1917 . |
| 18 | In 1913 he tied for the Open , losing a celebrated play-off to the young local amateur Francis Ouimet . |
| 19 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 20 | David Lodge was one ; in his inaugural lecture as Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham in 1976 he slid from the supposed arbitrariness of language as defined by Saussure to the way in which the masterpieces of modernist literature emphasized form rather than content . |
| 21 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 22 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 23 | In World War I he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as temporary captain in charge of the base laboratory at Salonika ( 1916 ) , and later in Northern Ireland as bacteriologist ( 1918 ) . |
| 24 | During World War I he worked on the western front in a field survey company and in interpretation of aerial photographs . |
| 25 | In April 1282 he fought in the Welsh war with one knight and one serjeant and in the following year made over his English and Welsh lands to his son , Pierre de Joinville . |
| 26 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 27 | First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him . |
| 28 | At the age of 16 he travelled through the Far East and went to Australia to work on a sheep station . |
| 29 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 30 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |